Big Sky Conference
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The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
All labels observed (19)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T177180 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Big Sky Conference Context triple: [FCS, hasConferences, Big Sky Conference]
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A.
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a major NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States, recognized as one of the top-tier "Power Five" leagues in college sports.
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Missouri Valley Football Conference
The Missouri Valley Football Conference is a prominent NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league known for its strong Midwestern programs and frequent national title contenders.
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Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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Southwest Conference
The Southwest Conference was a historic college athletic conference in the south-central United States, best known for featuring major Texas universities in NCAA competition before disbanding in the mid-1990s.
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E.
Pac-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the western United States, known for sponsoring top-tier NCAA Division I sports programs across multiple universities.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Big Sky Conference Target entity description: The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
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A.
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a major NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States, recognized as one of the top-tier "Power Five" leagues in college sports.
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B.
Missouri Valley Football Conference
The Missouri Valley Football Conference is a prominent NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) league known for its strong Midwestern programs and frequent national title contenders.
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C.
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was a former NCAA Division I athletic conference that operated in the early 1990s, primarily featuring universities from the Midwestern United States before its members were absorbed into Conference USA.
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D.
Southwest Conference
The Southwest Conference was a historic college athletic conference in the south-central United States, best known for featuring major Texas universities in NCAA competition before disbanding in the mid-1990s.
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E.
Pac-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a major collegiate athletic conference in the western United States, known for sponsoring top-tier NCAA Division I sports programs across multiple universities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I conference
ⓘ
collegiate athletic conference ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Big Sky ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | Division I ⓘ |
| competitionScope | intercollegiate athletics ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| divisionOf |
NCAA Division I athletics
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I
|
| focusesOn | Football Championship Subdivision programs ⓘ |
| footballLevel | FCS ⓘ |
| footballSubdivision |
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision
ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA Division I FCS
|
| geographicFocus | western United States ⓘ |
| governs |
conference championships
ⓘ
regular season competition ⓘ |
| hasGenderCategory |
men's sports
ⓘ
women's sports ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberType | universities ⓘ |
| notableFor | FCS football competition ⓘ |
| regionServed | Western United States ⓘ |
| sponsorsSport |
American football
ⓘ
cross country ⓘ golf ⓘ men's basketball ⓘ soccer ⓘ softball ⓘ tennis ⓘ track and field ⓘ volleyball ⓘ women's basketball ⓘ |
| sportGoverningBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| subdivision | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Big Sky Conference Description of subject: The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference best known for sponsoring Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) programs across universities primarily in the western United States.
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